New Jeff Beck album!

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Well guys I just saw him perform 2 nights ago in a bar up in vancouver, you got to think thats a first for canada. The show was good if not relaxed, I think it was the 3rd date on the tour. He played alot of the new disc "Rollin & Tumblin" sans batten on vocal also Nadia & Loose Cannon among others. He also touched on the Blow & Wired and a Beckola track plus the beatles martin tribute track. He came out strong early set was on fire and mid set he layed back a bit and did a bit of a medley of riffs on the wayout. Seems to be having fun this time, I'll tell you it was neat seeing him in this setting, also believe it or not went back & met him should have polled you guys for questions, I just ended up talkin about an old tele he played and about the Nadia track, had to get out of the way of the Sony execs, anyway I've seen Beck maybe 4 or 5 times this one I'll remember, if you can you got to see him again just to hear him move on the guitar...
 
I'm green... and it's not easy...

By the way, that's not Jennifer Batten singing on "Rollin' and Tumblin'," on the CD, it's Imogen Heap...
 
beckola

Yeah your right, she did a good job though, never knew she could moan so well, anyway I think her voice was doubled with the recorded voice, that lilt on the end of the lines, by the way the local paper called it one of the best shows to date this year they compared it to the Joel/Elton gig believe it or not, that makes me feel a little long in the tooth..
 
The Beck album with "Going Down" and "Glad All Over.".....'nuff said.
 
Jeff Beck played in San Francisco 2/20 and 2/21; I missed it but the local rag had a good review.

Re Jeff Beck's supposed appearance last night, or this morning really, on the Late, Late Show with Craig Kilborn:

I hope nobody stayed up late just for this... I taped it and scanned through the tape this morning and Jeff Beck was a no-show.

I looked at the CBS website this morning. The calendar part still says he was supposed to be on last night and shows tonight's guests as "TBA,", but another blurb just below the title says that he's on tonight. I'll check it out again later.
 
From the Thursday, 2/22 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle:

Jeff Beck Lets Guitar Do the Talking
Consummate craftsman makes every note count

Jeff Beck knows who he is. He may be flirting with a touch of electronica on recent recordings and his two Warfield shows this week, but he was not succumbing to some kind of desperate grab for trendiness. He was just looking for grooves to mine.

Whether he was skittering across the alternating 6/4 and 5/4 time signatures of "Earthquake," from his new album, "You Had It Coming," or bopping along to a dub reggae track provided by his three-piece band, Beck was the master of the Stratocaster.

With just his guitar, the cord and the stacks of Marshall amplifiers, the pioneer British blues-rock guitarist made his guitar talk, sing, cry, laugh, roar, scream and roam the vast territory beyond language.

Wearing a plain white T-shirt and black leather vest, the ageless Beck was all business. He never said a word to the audience -- he didn't even have a microphone in front of him.

Since his days in the Yardbirds 35 years ago, Beck has been a guitarist of big, rich, oily tones. On swinging '60s hits like "Heart Full of Soul," "Shapes of Things" or "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," the murky, early beginnings of heavy-metal guitar can be heard. On his subsequent funk and fusion-flavored '70s recordings -- not to mention his highly successful blues- rock outings with vocalist Rod Stewart in the Jeff Beck Group -- he made his statement as much with the way his guitar sounded as with what he played.

At the Warfield, he was a consummate craftsman. His ethereal whammy-bar touch on "Where Were You" made each note shimmer. But a single note, in the hands of Beck, can be a lot of music. He loves to float fat, glowing notes and let them hang in the air like passing clouds. He likes to tickle the strings so they whisper. Every hemidemisemiquaver is deliberate.

Beck has refined his style and developed his skills over the years. He keeps getting better on his instrument. He has abandoned picks and plucks the strings with his bare fingers, gaining even greater control. He went from blasting molten volleys into a dense rhythmic brew on one number to carefully coaxing out of his guitar a precise melody on the next number. He took his bottleneck slide past the fretboard, searching out the music beyond his frets. He could be fierce and menacing or quiet and reverential. And always, there was a hint of cartoonlike humor in his playing.

At the Warfield on Tuesday, he matched his guitar to a variety of styles. Drummer Randy Ganadeen from the Spice Girls set Beck up against the modern sound of subtle loops and intricate cross rhythms. Guitarist Jennifer Batten pushed Beck to the fore mostly, but she could trade licks with him when necessary or fire off an incendiary barrage of her own.

Beck makes uncompromising music, not made to appeal to any particular contingent or constituency. There is no skinny, long-haired blues-shouting wannabe fronting for Jeff Beck (he's been there, done that). His show was pure guitar and all playing.

Neal Schon of Journey, a guitarist of considerable acclaim, sat in the back of the hall, laughing, shaking his head, acting like the fan he is.

But Beck brings that out in his crowd. After all, they know who he is, too. -- Joel Selvin
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Have you guys ever check out Frankie's House?

That Jeff Beck soundtrack he did....GREAT stuff, very Asian sounding....

I like it a lot.

Vihn's Funeral is all harmonics, Jeff and his Trem Bar....incredible.
 
Frankie's House, yeah, that's terrific stuff.

Anyone see Friday night's Late, Late Show? JB and band played "Dirty Mind."
 
Beck is in New Orleans tomorrow night (3-3) at the House Of Blues.
 
jimmy sarle

jimmy went on to play for johnny meastro and the brooklyn bridge I went to hicksville high with jimmy
 
Beck is strange for me. IMO, he's either really on or really off. There doesn't seem to be much in between to me. When he's on, it's really, really great. But when he's off, it's almost amateur-sounding to me.
 
AlChuck said:
effedupstrat,

That phrase reminded me of a science fiction story I read, oh, fifteen years ago, maybe more? By a writer named Lewis Shiner... ne seems to have music infuse his stuff quite a bit...
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Fellow Austinite. His novel Glimpses is a very cool, eerie alternative rock and roll history. I recommend it.
 
Wow, it's so funny when a thread pops up like this from the past. Before today, the last post on it was in March 2001 - over eight years ago!

The title is almost relevant again too, what with the Performing Live at Ronnie Scott's CD which came out in November, and now the DVD of the same shows, released at the end of March.

Beck is also on tour this month and I am going to see him next week at the Fox Theater in Oakland... taking my two teenage boys to see him too.
 
Re my old friend Jimmy Sarle that I mentioned in this thread back in 2001, I've since reconnected with him. Great player and a great guy.

Just found this YouTube clip of the Brooklyn Bridge performing in Germany a couple of years ago and there's a brief but really great solo that Jimmy does in a medley of Dion tunes. Solo starts at 5:52. Here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyc725fvbNU
 
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